“This is not chess. But sometimes things are black and white.” — @Kasparov63
Watch chess grandmaster Gary Kasparov's powerful #TED2022 talk on Russia and the war in Ukraine here: https://t.co/zWRkv8Zxfn
There is an elephant in the negotiation room. Its name is Roman Abramovich. Allow me to give you some context on who this guy actually is and how his participation in the Ukraine-Russia peace talks should be viewed.
"Where is my dad?" Dima, a young Ukrainian boy, cries from his hospital bed as he asks for his father, who, like Dima, was injured in Mariupol. His father is being treated in another part of the hospital.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov refused to rule out the use of nuclear weapons if 🇷🇺 faced an ”existential threat”.
Given Putin’s proven paranoia this is bad news.
#StopPutinNOW
The answers in this interview are like an Orwellian fiction.
Kremlin’s Dmitry Peskov, on the growing number of civilian casualties in Ukraine: "The Russian troops do not strike or shoot civilians. Russian troops HELP civilians."
https://t.co/X7Cc1Vh1Mr
#StopPutinNOW
Have you ever heard about the Suwałki Gap?
If Russia ever launches a direct attack on NATO, it will most likely start here.
It’s a bottleneck between Poland and the Baltic states.
Cut it off from Belarus and Kaliningrad and NATO reinforcements can’t reach the Baltic states.
Три российских космонавта, только что пристыковавшиеся к Международной космической станции, прибыли в украинском желтом!
Three Russian cosmonauts who just docked with the ISS arrive in Ukrainian yellow!